Glen Allen was turned out by his mother when she remarried after her first husband was killed in the Civil War. Her second husband was a gambler and a lover of whiskey. Glen was taken in at the age of twelve by an older man who had never been married and loved Glen like he was his own son. When Glen passed his twenty second birthday, J.P. Simpson was at deaths doorstep. He had put a dollar a day in a bank savings account the day he took the youngster in as his on son. Knowing that he was dying J.

P. sold his ranch and all of his cattle and placed the money in the bank for Glen. J.P. gave Glen a valise and told him that there was a letter inside it just for him. In the note J.P. told him that he was once a sheriff and had to kill or be killed.

He told Glen to use the Colt pistol that was in the valise and hoped that he never had to kill anyone with it unless it was a matter of his own life at stake. A few good friends and the will power of Glen to save a lot of ranchers from a gang of rustlers in Texas tells the story of how life really was .